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<blockquote data-quote="David." data-source="post: 7870983" data-attributes="member: 67"><p>Lampreys would love to turn up at our place about 5pm with a 10 ton load of 52 Regular in cwt bags, I would have been about 14 at the time I expect. The bags had to be stacked a special way in the back of the lean-to shed, so that we could run up the bags like steps to enable the bags to be stacked tight up to the roof sheets and not waste a cubic inch of space. The bags had a small splodge of glue like molasses applied to stop them slipping on the pallets before shrink wrapping was a thing, and it would get gormed all on your neck and shoulder.</p><p>Squirrel sacks or the ones with 2 purple stripes, are the ones I can remember handling corn in, as late as 1983. They would have been more like 1.75cwt though.</p><p>It was often my job as a teenager to perch on the top of the side of the 6 wheeler grain lorries of the day, and catch hold of the bottom corner of the sacks as they went over the end of the old Cook elevator and shake out the last of the corn and catch the sacks.</p><p>It wasn't driven by poverty, it was lack of inclination to improve. Gramp always had a nice car, and was moaning about paying income tax</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="David., post: 7870983, member: 67"] Lampreys would love to turn up at our place about 5pm with a 10 ton load of 52 Regular in cwt bags, I would have been about 14 at the time I expect. The bags had to be stacked a special way in the back of the lean-to shed, so that we could run up the bags like steps to enable the bags to be stacked tight up to the roof sheets and not waste a cubic inch of space. The bags had a small splodge of glue like molasses applied to stop them slipping on the pallets before shrink wrapping was a thing, and it would get gormed all on your neck and shoulder. Squirrel sacks or the ones with 2 purple stripes, are the ones I can remember handling corn in, as late as 1983. They would have been more like 1.75cwt though. It was often my job as a teenager to perch on the top of the side of the 6 wheeler grain lorries of the day, and catch hold of the bottom corner of the sacks as they went over the end of the old Cook elevator and shake out the last of the corn and catch the sacks. It wasn't driven by poverty, it was lack of inclination to improve. Gramp always had a nice car, and was moaning about paying income tax [/QUOTE]
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